tsheffield wrote:In my building, a Heritage building, the standard 3 to 4 ward building being built for the last 5 or more years...

mkmurray wrote:I wonder if there is a way we could know the names of the common building layouts and what they look like (just generically, not like an official blueprint or anything)?

Interestingly enough, there is a new set of wiki pages regarding DTA physical facilities stuff for the different Areas of the Church. (DTA = Director of Temporal Affairs, pretty much as high in the non-ecclesiastical organization as you can go for a paid Church employee, as you report directly to the Presiding Bishopric at that point).

Anyway, these wiki pages are building out a collection of PDF files of each stake within each area. It appears to be an organized survey of all the physical facilities of the Church (in North America for now). The interesting part is trying to parse what the information boxes mean by each building. I have been able to identify the following pieces of data in those boxes:

Some kind of physical facility ID number

The name of the building layout (i.e., Heritage, Legacy, etc.)

Year the building finished construction

Acreage

Address and City

The names of the units meeting in the building (and also some fraction indicating how many units are currently meeting in the building and what the maximum number of units meeting can be)

Otherwise, I can't make out any of the 3rd line, nor any of the second half of the 4th line in each info box.

Pretty interesting stuff to look at (especially to see stuff like land plots the Church holds for planned future buildings; also interesting is that we had some ward name changes in our stake as of just a few weeks ago, and they are all correct and current in my stake's PDF file). Anyway, I brought this up because of the discussion regarding names given to the different meetinghouse layouts.

mkmurray wrote:Anyway, these wiki pages are building out a collection of PDF files of each stake within each area. It appears to be an organized survey of all the physical facilities of the Church (in North America for now). The interesting part is trying to parse what the information boxes mean by each building. I have been able to identify the following pieces of data in those boxes:

Thanks for the pointer! Pretty cool stuff. And (ahem) there is a key on the map.

Interestingly, the colors (and numbers in these boxes) indicate growth projections. I'm guessing "sp grwth prj" is the growth projected by the Stake Presidency. I suppose you can see if they're right if the "act grwth" matches.

Evidently those maps are not complete. While our stake building, which is shared by three wards, is marked on the map there is no information for the building. At first I thought I was just missing it but I was able to allocate all the information boxes to other buildings and correlate the addresses. The address for the building does not appear in any of the information boxes.

jdlessley wrote:Evidently those maps are not complete. While our stake building, which is shared by three wards, is marked on the map there is no information for the building. At first I thought I was just missing it but I was able to allocate all the information boxes to other buildings and correlate the addresses. The address for the building does not appear in any of the information boxes.

It's likely because it is a "survey" of all things, an attempt to gather all the information into one place and perhaps keep it updated. It is surprising to see changes as of just a few weeks ago in my stake, but not the same for yours.

Many questions are already answered on the LDSTech wiki. Check it out!

After reading my post some time later, my comment - "The address for the building does not appear in any of the information boxes" - may be misread by some people. What I meant to say was the address for my stake center building does not appear in any of the information boxes. There are addresses for all the information boxes that are on the map. There just isn't an information box for the stake center building.